This was a review, published in the London Review of Books in 1994, of two innovative books. One, Suing Judges, by a young academic, Abimbola Olowofoyeku, who went on to achieve distinction, was a comparative study of what some regard as anomalous and others as essential to the administration of justice – the immunity of judges from lawsuits. The other, The Independence of the Judiciary,was the product of a trawl by the veteran Anglo-American scholar Robert Stevens through the Lord Chancellor's archives, set in a matrix of constitutional law.

Some of the reflections prompted by the two volumes on the constitutional position and role of the judiciary have been borne out in the developments of subsequent years.